New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 9, 1930, Page 17

NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1930 NVESTMENT BOND |Stock Market Turns Bullish After MARKET IRREGULAR| Early Losses of 1 to 3 Points and Cains and osses of Hall a it Helps Chalk Up New Highs Today Well Mixed on Board Tatl Cement .. 713 Intl Harvester 10 Intl Nickel ... New York, April 9 (P —Investment Intl Tel & Tel bonds moved irregularly in today's Johns-Manv'le 13 market. Gaing and losses of about Kansas City So half a point were well mixed dur- Kresge Co . ing the carlier dealings, especially Kroger Groc'y 3 in the rail group which has been Lehigh Valley § unsettled in the last fortnight. Liquid Cab'n'c 7 Rally in Convertibles Marlin-R'kwell The morning trading saw a lively Math Alkali .. rally in the convcrtibles and stock MK&TRR warrent bonds. ubert Theater 6s | Missouri Pac . snapped up § points to 63 during | Mont Ward the first two hours and at that figure| New York, April 9 (P)—The stock | Nash Motor: were only a point below their 1930 a market turned strong today after an | Nat Biscuit high. Other amuscment issues, | early period of irrcgularity. Larly |Nat Cash Res - such as General Theaters Equip- | declines of 1 to 3 points in a rath-|N Y Central ment e and Loew's Gs. gained |er jong list of issues were cut down |N Haven R R | several points on the strensth of the | or converted into gains, and a num- | North Am Co harcs. American telephone 41:5|per of stocks marked up 1 to 10|North Pac rose more than 2 points, but Inter- | oints in the broad buying move- | Packard Mot . national Telephone 415 were dull. | ment which developed in the early [ Pan-Am B The uneven rail market witnessed |arteroon. Trading showed a tend- | Par't Lasky declines in Southern Rail 85, Off | ency to turn dull on the declines and | Phillips Pet 13%, St Louis-San Francisco 4%, |to jncrease on the rallies. Pub Serv NJ Northern Pacific 6s, Missouri Pacific Steel Figures Blamed Pullman Co .. General 4s, Louisville & Nashville| pgpy selling was inspired largely | Radio Corp 4%s and numerous others. Wabash |y the reported falling oft in steel | Rad-Keith-Or 43%s, Baltimore & Ohio Refunding | mi opcrations. Bear traders tried to | Rem Rand 55, Santa Fe General 4ls, Western | capitalize this development by a|Rep Irm & St Maryland 4s. Union Pacific 435, |geries of attacks against the steel|RoY Dutch NY Delaware & Hudson Great Northern | sharcs and specialties, but they fail- | St L San Fran 1 35 and Boston & Maine 55 were firm. | ¢q {o dislodge most long stock. | Sears Roebuck merican Telephone 53 of 1625 | Mcanwhile, pool operators brought | Sinclair Oil sold off half a point to the lowest in | forward new leaders and apparently | Southern Pac several weeks, but regained their|succceded in attracting an outside | Southern Ry |decline. Lorillard 5s, Chile Copper | tollowing. Stand Brands Last night Linne lodge of New |3 Utilities Power & Light 85| A reduction from 4 to 31 per 5:“[“‘:)“:;’“ : Britain entertained the visitors in|3710ur 32s and Shell Union Oil 35, | cent in the call money rate helped 5:1 o o Vega hall on Arch street. Waracnj“‘"‘ warrants, eased. to stimulate bullish operations. The |G oo & Feank Rybeck delivered an address, | - Trading in foreign bonds was onrccent decline in commercial bor-| go B oo Miss Mabel Steiner played a piano|? ?qmlfl“hd"..fi.r“v‘” basis. Kreuger|rowinzs disclosed in the weekly ST solo. This was followed by addresses | & TOIl 35 carrying warrants, were| ederal Reserve Bank statement in | Celt -~ by Horace Cook, grand warden, of | Ullusually active and about a point|contrast to the usual seasonal in- |y s higher. Argentinc long term Donds | croaso . : g | T0XAS Gult Su Waterbury; John Ahearn, supreme ! crease at this time of the year Was |y o pot por § were dull and firm on the an-|c. o - L 5 warden, Boston; and Walter POW-| nouncement that that government | o eocl DY some observers as an |t nion ers, Boston. A special feature of the|;04 contracted with a New York | Uriavorable olox, sradstreet’s | tnjon Vacific program s singing and mono- | Louse for 4 $30,000,000 issuc of six. | [CPOTied that the total value of | tryq Gas & I'p 461 logues by Llmer Johnson. months 35 por cent treasury gold | [UIINS permits in 195 cities in | {mited Corp .. 4 Severin Johnson, chaplain of the | notes, the largest picce of sport | VLTCh W28 140,781,491, as contrast-| 17§ 1n Alco 1041 local lodge, was chairman of the|term financing made here by a|C4 “ith 3104205106 in February |y s Rubber ... 531 program. South American government since |10 $361.006,272 in March of 1ast|y g stec] . 19614 Nine new candidates weve received | 1923, Yeal g s Vanadium Stec 1147 this morning at the session in the| Securitics of Iron Age stated that “with ten-|yopash RR .. 62% Burritt hotel. The report of the sce-| traded quictly. dencles mixed and/in many: instances fwarner Br Pic 761 retary showed a membership of | showed moderate st “":‘1";;"‘1‘": one "”l‘f‘;:“" the fl"_"“ West'gh's Elec 10014 4,340, a slight decrease over the e “D“;‘m““;‘m‘; Swlr gcsfr‘;‘c‘; Willys Overland 11 phmbeniensollediast eur rorvo‘r:nic‘:x are reported to have [DOIToEE e i Omcersficlactedgyere o pns Rl declined from 81 to 77 per cent of promised. found themselves in Pawtucket|p R, ivanis club at noon today day to show causc why they should | 1o cquip themsclves with modrrn; e iae as he would approach o |bieany, New Haven, grand vico war- | Sit1y tho vielim of a horsewhIpBING, | o paity and for the country at Jarge AFTER ACCIDENT: Central Falls Restaurant Owners Protest Forced Closing of Places, Central Falls, It. T, April 9 (P— After 24 hours in which not a single | meal was served in the 122 eating places in this city of 40,000 persons, definite action to relieve the situa- tion was taken today at a mass meeting of the aggrieved restaur- anters. The eating house owners named a committee ogf three to call on Alder- | A daughter was born to Mr. and Tmen Dolor Phancut and Joseph | Mrs. William G. Gooby of Kensing- Girard, so-called insurgents, to in-|ton at New Britain General hospi- duce them to attend an aldermanic | 131 today. mesting Tong cnough to approve the | A Son was born to Mr. and Mrs. victualers' licenses which expired on |Fred Livingston of 27 Broad strect March 81 and for lack of which Po. |at New Britain General hospital to- HAS MONEY VALUE The assembled victualers were told privately by onc of their mem- Rogers Urges Luncheon Group, to Get Out and Boost City bers, it was learncd, that at least one of the aldermen had consented to attend the meeting for the pur- pose, and it was said that Thomas Davis, president of the aldermen, had given his assurance that he The right spirit of optimism in New England would produce. results in the cash registers of its business firms within three weeks, according to Willard B. Rogers, business con- sultant of Hartford and former Tiny Plane Starts Hop From Ohio to New York Cincinnati, April 9 (®)—Stan- ley C. Huffman, Cincinnati, took off at 7 a. m., today from Lun- ken airport in an attempt to make a nonstop flight to Roose- velt field, New York, in what air- port officials claim to be the smallest practical planc flown. The plane, carrying 28 gallons of gasoline, is expected to reach its destination at 4 p. m. N.E.0.P.ELECTS (0K AS WARDEN Severin Jobnson Honored by Trustes's Position Horace Cook of Waterbury wa clected grand warden at the 42d an- nual convention of the New Eng- land Order of Protection which was held today in the Burritt hotel. About 100 delegates representing 57 lodges were present. . The only New Britain man to be honored by election to office was Severin Johnson, 215 Buell street, who was chosen trustee. Ralph H. Benson, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, delivered an address of welcome this morning. It was at the invitation of the Chamber that the convention was held in this city. Host to Order PUTNAM & CO. M-bm)lahrllwsfi“-’ n WEST MAIN ST., NEW Bnl'rm TEL. 2040 ] Birth Record A son was born at New Britain General hospital yesterday to Mr. and Mrs, Joseph Millerick of 383 South Main street. Steel Mill Figures Blamed for Opening Decline — Call Money Reduction Helps to Inspire Specu- lation — Case Again a Feature. We Offer: AETNA CASUALTY & SURETY (CO. AETNA LIFE INSURANCE CO. CONN. GENERAL LIFE INSURANCE CO. TRAVELERS INSURANCE CO. 6615 1851, EDDYBROTHERS e Members Hartford Stock NEW BRITAIN, 29 \V. Main Street HARTFORD MERIDEN 33 Lewis Street 43 Colony Street AETNA LIFE INSURANCE AETNA CASUALTY SURETY HARTFORD FIRE INSURANCE NJ M. L. GORDON & CO. Investments — Securities TEL. 6119 - 5900 would call a special meeting next split into “blocs,” has mnot had a mecting since last October. Exodus to Pawtucket Despite the plight of the restau- rateurs, the public generally sceni- ed to suffer only inconvenience. Strangers in the city walked five or | o odiqent of the Hartford Advertis-| street car 20 minutes in another di- | gm0 P8 THE O T 0 sistently p=clionitolEroyidanee | prosperous than any other city The city government. from Mayor | ) “Jliceorv. o6 the world, due large- J. Adeclard St. George down 1o every | 1u (o the insurance business. member of the common council and | * y¢ saig many New England fac- board of aldermen, today was serv- | tories are on the toboggan simply ed with summons to appear in su-|hocause they have falled to adapt answer to a writ of mandamus ask- | vertising,” the speaker averred. ed by City Treasurer John T. Wade,| “New England people who got who alleged that vital city business |caught in the market crash go was being neglected while the mem- [around crabbing about it. Wl Ders of the city government absented | You've got your same incomes. You themselves because of private gricv- [shouldn't speculate except with| ances. money you don't care about. Al Monday if a quorum was dcfll\i(el)’ six minutes from their hotels and | o 50t Bl S e New preme court at Providence next Mon- | themselves to modern methods m,;l the United Barlier —_— man should speculate in the same dines States prices 300 MAIN ST. MAN FOUND HORSEWHIPPED New York. April 9 (UP)—Appar- UTILITIES POWER & LIGHT (Listed On N TLOCAL STOCKS (Furnisbed by Potnam & Co.) New York Curb) while the common council, likewise for those who motored or rode by | "\ "posers said the city of Hart- Their appearance was required in | greater waste than unintelligent ad- used] 22| b riageport, grand treasurer; Mar- |and Mclrose avenue With a badly | over. reporty an inciease i opera: Insurance Stoc e e o ooveana Tegen |Etret Romans, New Haven, grund|bruised back. . [tions. p 4k fellows rushed nome and began| Gl g Harringlon, Wind-| Tisher would not discuss his in- | <““‘t"""‘ O etarttord do.|%or, grand guardian; Lena Davis,|Juries. He was taken to the Mor-| g 1 ¢ gn tmecessR R ONg Tlations| Bridgeport, grand sentincl; Charles |risania station for questioning be- | partment store had 12 cancellatio | {lar feature Manwarring, Niantie, grand [forc he was removed to Bellevuc {in one day from people who didn't (V- Manwarrins, 3 gt Asked 160 29 76 Aetna Casualty Actna Life Ins Co . Actna Fire .. Automobile Ins . Conn General Case Soars Again asc was again a spectacu- in today's market, soar- 3l E g ¢ high at 300 hospital, ing 10 points to a new high at 300, | guide. “Investments That Grow” There has been no quorum of the aldermen for more than a month, where plenty of servics and food Was| b, Burritt hotel as a representa- available. The same thing was true| &t 0% SH el o not mect and transact official busi- | machincry and to use modern ad-| ness. vertising methods. “There is no ; Henry C. Kendall, New Haven, |Charles Edward Fisher, 24, of Bos- | PlaC poker game. g::r'\du”:;é,:;”l;f"djoscph ‘ Clabby, |ton was found today at 161st street | 7O 78 to 76 per cent. One of the “What caused business to go bad| 2 other weckly trade Jjournals, how- Bristol Resident sitnl Aeuse o3 Evading Responsibility At the request of the New Britain police. was arrcsted this afternoon on a warrant charging her with evading | responsibility. Sergeant . A, Me- | Avay investigated an accident which occurred on Broad street and caused her arrest. She was locked up in de- fault of bonds and will be arraigned | in police court tomorrow. | Omar Sorell of 22 Kent street, Plainville, was driving on Broad | strect Sunday night and his car was | struck by Mrs. Wyman's car, but she | refused to disclose her identity. ac- cording to Sorell. Later he was driv- ing to Plainville and saw her ear against a pole, she having had a scc- ond accident, and in that way he was able to determine her identity. She left the scene and gave her op- crator’s license to a Bristol young man who is said to have been with her, so when the police arrived they | could not locate her. The result of the investigation was the arrest of three Bristol men, two on the charge of breach of the peace and the other on the charge of drunkenness. The casc was fol- | lowed further by the police on the information gleaned through yester- day's investigation. CONNECTICUT GIRL SCOUT COMMISSIONERS ASSEMBLE | | | Conference in This City Attended By | 29 Representing' Many | Cities in State, An all-day conference of Girl Scout commissioners of Connecticut | was held in this city yesterday at | the Girl Scout headquarters. There | were 29 commissioners and their dcputies present. Towns and cities represented were Norwalk, Stam- ford, Bridgeport, Derby, Shelton, Now Haven, Waterbury, Meriden, Middletown, New London, Hartford, Manchester and New Britain. Discussions on camp plans were conducted under the dircction of Miss Nellic Weat, Hartford dircetor; and Mrs. E. L. Warren, New Dritain | commissioner. Following a luncheon at the Bur- ritt hotel, a conference was held with | Mrs, Clifford D. Perkins of Hartford | in charge. A visit to the experi- | mental kitchen at Landers, Frary & | “ Clark plant occupied the time after tha conference. it xas announced that Girl Scout picture “The Girl Scout Trail” will be shown at the Capitol theater for four days beginning Sat- ay, With a_complimentary show- ing to the Girl Scouts on Monday afternoon. The regular monthly meeting of the executive committee of the New 3ritain council is being held this afternoon. a Held for Copper Theft From Property of S. W. Sergeant T. J. Feency of the de- tective bureau arrested Stanley Hahulski, 16. of 245 Clinten streect, end Julius Luzictti, 21, of 65 Del- mont street, today, on the charge of | theft of copper valued at approxi- mately $20 from the Stanley Works last Friday. The copper was recovered by the police in a junk yard and it is said the young men admitted that they disposed of it there, They are not Mrs. Odell Wyman of Bristol | | of the churches | herc the whole world would be get- | Wh | start with you. have to cancel ther. 1 know a young man who was working for $50 a week. He lost $9,000 in the market, and he owed the bank $7,500 of this. Business Prospects Brighter “Bufliness conditions looking better cvery day. It's all a matter of mind. Try it. Get a new hair- cut. Say ‘Good morning’ when you £o to your place of business tomor- row. “] haven't seen a newspaper any- where in the United States that was pessimistic. They are all boosters. “If your ministers would stop| reading ready made scrmons and | get. together and preach optimism | and faith the people would go out with a different | feeling. We need a movement in New England to have the people get baclk to the churche; “Don’t spend so much effort teach- ing the children in your schools about the fall of Rome. Tell them a little more about the rise of New Britain. “If they had churches in the south ! like you have in New Britain they'd never stop talking about it. “If they had schoola in St. Peters- burg like your senior high schools ting A. P. dispatches about them, ‘Damed Good Newspapers” “You've got darned good mnews- papers in New Britain. 1f things aren’t going good in New Britain | it's an indictment upon yourselves. “I go to civic meetings and T hear them sing ‘California, Here I Come. or ‘Carry Me Back to Old Virginn don’t they sing about New ingland ? | It costs $15,000 to cducate a boy or girl in New Britain to the age of 18 years. Arc you going to give them something to look forward to| here or arc you going to let them find their future in some other town? “There is nothing wrong with the United States. “Optimism, faith, right living must Go out and buy a new suit. Everybody buy a new suit, or get a haircut, or buy a new tie, or if you can't buy a new car give the old one a coat of paint; wear a | flower in your buttonhole; smile; radiate optimism. If you meet a man with a grouch take him to a doctor and have his liver examined. Give the doctor a job. “Do this and within three weeks there'll be cash in the till, and that's the only thing that interests New England.” Baumgaertner Estate Accounting Suit Heard Judse Isaac Wolfe, formerly of the superior court bench, heard evi- dence as a committee of the su- perior court in Iartford this fore- noon in the action of the Jacoh Baumgaertner estate against Frank M. Zimmerman for an accounting with relation to property on Myrtle and Vine streets. Tt §s expected that a settlement will be made by the détendant. Attorney Donald Gaffney repre- sents the plaintift and Judge W. F. Mangan the defendant. The prin- cipals werc joint owners of the real estate in question and shortly before Mr. Baumgaertner's death he brought the action. The men were brothers-in-law. Gasoline Up Onc Cent At Service Stations An increase of one cent a galfon in the price of gasolinc became ef- fective today, bringing the retail price up to 1814 cenws, it was an- nounced by the major gasoline com- GURB MAKES GAIN | .| stantial gain in George B. Cadman of Hartford was elected chairman of the grand trustees. Mr. Johnson and Harry | 7. Cummings of New Haven, werce | chosen trust ON HEAVY BUYING! Score of Issues Show Heels to| Remainder of List Today New York, April 9 (®—The curbd| market once wore turned emphat- jcally upward today under the in- fluence of heavy buying of sclected |[f issues. ‘ The movement was not broad,| being confined to about a score of | issues, but it was sufficient to im- part a firm tone to the general list While speculative scntiment re- mained somewhat cautious, there was a feeling that the market's posi- tion had been improved by the mod- crate reaction yesterday. Deere New Strong A strong feature was Deerc new stock, which was hurled up nearly 10 points, to the accompaniment of Wall strect cstimates that earnings this year will run between $20 .and $25 a share, comparcd to $16 last vear. Aviation Corp. of the Amer- icas was also in demand rising moic than 4 points to @ new high for the | year. Aluminum Co. rose about 10 points to around its best 1830 lev- els, and substantial advances wers scored by Amcrican Chain and the new Tubize Chatillon class “B” shares. Utility shares generally moved forward, with United Light & Pow- r “A” in the lead. This issue sold around the peak levels of the year. Amerjcan and foreign power war-| rants and clectric bond and share rallied substantially. The United| Gas new shares, however, were again under pressure, reaching new low levels. Niagara Hudson turned over in considerable volume slightly above yesterday's final level. Oils Rally Moderately generally rallied moderately, despite the American Petrolcum In- stitute's estimate showing a sub- crude production last week. This was attributed pri- marily to the bringing in of a gush- er by Indian Territory and IFoster Petrolcum in the OKklahoma City pool. Gulf and Humble sold mod- erately higher. The Indian Terri- tory issues, however, were sluggish, and Cities Scrvice cased fractionally. | SIMMONS SEES BOURSE Milan, Italy, April 9 (F—E. H. H. Simmons, president of the New York Stock Exchange, visited the Bourse here today and was reccived official- ly by the dircctorate. He will be guest this evening at a dinner given by the Fascist General Banking Confederation, at which all principal civil and military authori- ties and leaders of political, finan- cial. and indystrial fields of Lom- bardy will be present. FREIGHTS CRASH HEADON Gill, Mass., April 9 (—A south- bound freight train and a light locomotive on the Central Vermont railway were in a headon collision between this town and Northfield T'arms to Both locomotives | were derailed: G, T. Chase, a fire- employed at the Stanley Works, panics, | YACHTSMAN DIES lof 192 1-4, |8 points Lastman Kodak ran up which contrasts with the year's low and Worthington Pump 5. | home of his parents. | street. | Katheri Brightlingaca, cx, April 9 (P Captain K. Edward Sycamore, 74 widely known yachtsman, died he suddenly today. Captain Sycamore | commanded Sir Thomas Lipton's| Shamrock 11 in 1901, Later he was in command of other well known | vachts. Last year he was in charg of Shamrock 1V. | Ne |or liee CONDUCTOR COMMITS SUICIDE Boston. April 9 (UP)—The hody of Joseph Balkan, for IS years u street car conductor, was tound to- day suspended by a rope from the top of a lawn swing in the yard of his Roxbury home. Dlolice were unable to learn of any motive for his act. stos in Deaths William DiLoreto William DiLoreto, three year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Donato Di- Loreto of 245 Oak street, died last | night at the New Britain General hospital from an acute heart at- tack. The child was scized with a se- vere attack yesterday afternoon and was rushed to the hospital, where he died about three hours after ad- mittance, Funeral services will be held to- morrow afternoon at 30 at the Burial will be Mars's cemetery. George Brooks Newton Less than a week after he had| celebrated his Dbirthday, George Brooks Newton, son of Mre., Emily Brooks Newton of 1142 Stanley died this morning. He was rs old last ¥riday. Born in Southington, his pa ents | moved to this eity man$ years ago ! and he had made his home here for | some time. Besides his mother. he is rurvived by three brothers, Harold D., Wil- liam C. and Howard C. Newton, all of this city, and four sisters Zona Pitcher of Brooklyn, M lian ook Anna Mar: don and X Tm v Wi tor: All All Am An An mn St A Am At An An Atl Brij Cal Ci Car Cer | General | Shubert U, arl also were sur that a houses had acquired [the Whelan interests. Among the many reach new Air TNeduction Am Com | Am Balt Bendix Avia . Beth Bucyrus Krie Bush Electr Jers Theal w atrice ters, United more to new 193 1 to above 196, trading. turned ly CKs New York heavy on to the climination e in the early trading. responsc group to the of stock provement, 0il, Penick thington, Corn Product and Ford, MARKET PRIC Total sales to 600 shares. High 150 ied Chem . 3081 is Chalmers 66 1 Bank Note 937% 1 Bosch Mag 49% 1 Can 1533 ) Car & Fdy — Alco 247% n & I Pw 1 Loco .. Low Smelting 1 Tel & Tel n Woolen, ¢ 274 Anaconda Atcl hison o antic Ref . & Ohio. . ges Mfz . . 301 Term cm 42 m & Hecla. nada Dry n Pacific N Alloy Stecl + |Cer De Pasco . s will he held day afternoon #t 2 o'clock at the B . Porter Sons funcral parlors. Jtev. William H. Alderson, pastor of Trin- ity Methodist church. will officiate and burial will be in Oak Hill ccme- tery, Southington. uncral servic P Col Con Funerals Mrs. Amelia Ellert “uneral services for Mrs. Amelia Ellert, aged 74, a former resident of this city, who died Monday in Newington, were held this afternoon at 1:45 with prayers at the home of her davghter, Mrs. Ida Schidel of Olive street, Maple Hill, Newington and at 2:30 at St. Matthew's Ger- man Lutheran church, Rev. A, C. T. Stecge officiated and burial was in Tairview cemeter: Eri Gen Ger Gen Ger — Ger Mrs. Prank C. Funeral service for tadil, aged 52, wife of I'rank C. Radil of 118 Monroe street, who died yesterday, will be held to- morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock at the home. Rev. Dr, George W. C. Jill. pastor of the South Congrega- tional church. will officiate and Radil Mrs. Julia Grn G man, was slightly injured. burial will be in Fatrview cemetery. Ches M St I('h( & North Chi Pne GRS Chrysler Mot Corn Crucible Steel Curtiss Wrt em 14% Dav Del & Hudson 180% Tasmn Kodak Elec Autolite Elec Pwr & Lt Fox Film TFreeport Te Genl Pub Sery Genl Rwy Glidden Co cm Gold Goodrich Graham Paige Hud Inspiratn Cop 2 & Ohio r&r Tl em 413 851 umbia Gas . Con Gas NY ntinen Can . 4 Prod ...108% 89 Chemical 407 240 11085 047 c R R A n Am Tank 1 nl Asphalt nl Electric . Nl Foods nl Motors . g 10 Dust Rub ndy Con Cop 5 Northrn pid 99 dson Motor Public Service of | Creamery, Carbon and Zenith Radio advanced 4 points 1930 high prices. 8. Steel common, after selling down 1 1-8 points to 3-4, ral- Bethlechem Steel nd Ludlum also were heavy in the traction an- inouncement that Mayor Walker was opposed five cent fare provision in the tran- sit Dbill. United Air Coast and Io\i targets of selling pres- Universal | Pipz was marked up to a new high | announcement exchange control from the of the| other issues to highs were United Gas Skel- Sparks- Raybestos, General Mo- Yellow Truck, Loews and Gen- eral Gas and Elcctric “A." s, 58 56 a1 1380 Hartford Tire .. [Hitra steam Boiler | National Fire Thocnix Fire Travelers Ins Co Manufacturing Stocks Am Hardware 60 Arrow-Hart & Hegeman 40 Billings & Spencer . Bristol Brass | City Company | Colt’s Arms | Lagle Lock . | ratnir Bearing Co . Hart & Cooley | Landers, 1° . N B Machine North & Judd Falmer Bros Peck, Stowe & Wil Russell Mfg Co . Scovill Mfg Co Standard Screw Stanley Works Torrington Co Union Mfg Co Veeder-Root Public Utilities a(u\l\a Conn Elec Service 85 Conn Lt & P 5129 ConnPower ) Light J 62 42 = || Wall Street Briefs 1413 New York, April 0.—Following the | |lead established by the Standard Ofl (0. of New York, the Pan-American Jl‘nmlmm & Transport Co., Shell Eastern Petroleum Corp., and the | | Richficld Ol Corp., have advanced tank wagon and scrvice throughout the New York and New Ingland territory he Cuban-American Telephone Co. owned jointly by the Amcrican and the International Telephone & Telegraph companies, has arranged for the laying of an additional cable between this country and Cuba. New financing for the Columbia Pictures Corp., to provide funds to liquidate bank loans and for other corporate purposes is expected to he made soon in the firm of an issuc of voting trust certificates for 50,000 * | shares of no par common stock. March sales of the Stores, Inc., amounted to compared with $7,084.892 in March, 1929, an increase of 7.79 per cent. During the past month the comp was operating 1,410 stores and meat markets, as 7 and 230 markets March, 19 MacMarr in operation LOCKE REMOVED TO HOME Pa; April 9 (A—William J. Locke, British novelist who has been seriously ill here, was transferred to- day from the nursing home where he has been cenfined to his flat in nearby Passy. His condition was said to be “as good as can be expected.” eration. APPROVES ELECTION LAW Santo Domingo. Dominican Re- public, April-9 (#—The Dominican congress today approved a new elec- tion law and sent it to President Urena for signature and cccution. Elections will be held on May Quict prevailed throughout the republic. station | 6, | gainst 1,311 stores | in | He recently underwent a serious op- ! Joseph Fuller, Richter, Aldrich & Co. COMMERCIAL TRUST BUILDING NEW BRITAIN MEMBLERS HARTFORD STOCK EXCHANGE M. Halloran, Manages, Tel. 1388 We particularly recommend: United Founders Corporation diversified fields of investment. can sidi investment company COMMON STOCK A holding company with substantial interests in It controls the Amer- Founders Corporation, which with jts four sub- ary companies, occunies a leading position in the field; and the United States Eleetric Power Corporation—a prominent public util- ity 30. I holding company. Total earnings for the fiscal period ending Nov. 1929, were $6.47 per share. rice at market $37.50 a share Yield 5.719, Sitevenson. Gregory & Ao, Members of New York and Hartford Stock Exchanges 55 West Main Street New Britain Phone 2580 Stuart G. Segar, Manager s We Offer: prices of gasoline onc cent a zallon | ASKS | | doseph | Washin mental su | of securiti house int tee today the inters Iastma for supervise i “By |ies.” e curities u erganized road, pany, for OF NEW SECURITIES Railroad Holding Companies | panies was recommended include this pha | tion of holding and investment trust companies. He asked that it provide a remedy the present situation the commission, by railroad companics. without jurisdiction ities of holding companics. the us¢ Jurisdiction over The witness cited vania company, the & IRVING TRUST Price on Application. e e e e e e e S R P tem, and the Virginia Transper- tation corporation, organized by the Chesapeake and Ohio, as having is= sucd securities without the commis. sion’s permission. a SUPERVISION Fastman Would Curb Biggest Phone Rush Since 1926 Reported Not since the North & Judd dis- aster February 4, 1926, when tie collapse of 4 foundry roof under weight of snow caused the death ef a number of men, has the local tefe- April phone service faged such heavy de- pervision over the issuance | mands as last night, according to T. s Ly railroad holding com- | P. McAuliffe, exchange manager. to the| Although the wires had bedn o s busy all day long, by 6 o’clock the F;i“j'\‘“\"”I""I‘(:Um”“l;l|c(‘r‘nt|y cnlarged switchboard wWas o kg“f”!““’ ol “;:““:“‘]fl‘m“‘\ | being taxed to its fullest capaciti. 5 | Since the board is much larger thap n urged the committee 10|, "4n, time of the North & Judd in i INVestisa- | iastrophe, this would indicate thgt there were more calls than the losal cxchange has ever before handled. | Every position on the board a3 |filled, more than double the number | of girls being retained for duty unfil lafter 8 o'clock. ov ‘hr‘ nsx?”: curs | The number of calls was far | fix |excess ‘of those handled at the last | presidential clection and s estimaf- |ed to have been approximately 18 000 within a three-hour period, | which is considered more than a per cent overload, 10,000 to 11,0 being a fairly high average. the Pennsyl-| Thousands of calls for informa- a holding vompany | tion on the clection were answered by the Pennsylvania rail- |at the Herald oftice. al Investment com- | by the Nickel Dlaie|USE HERALD CLASSIFIED Afin ston, 9 — Govern- in which | while empowered to the jance of securities of hol “the the nder the t has in ng commis issuance interstate some compan- ion' of sc- com- cases been | said,